Kyodo News

Japanese news agency

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Kyodo News

Shiodome Media Tower, headquarters of Kyodo News in Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Formerly	Domei News Agency
Company type	Nonprofit cooperative news agency
Industry	News agency
Founded	1945; 79 years ago (1945)
Founder	Furuno Inosuke
Headquarters	Tokyo, Minato-ku, Higashi-Shimbashi 1-chome No. 7 No. 1
Area served	Japan and worldwide
Operating income	40.7 billion yen (Fiscal year ended March 2012)
Number of employees	1,621 (as of April 1, 2022)
Subsidiaries	Kyodo News International
Website	KyodoNews.jp

Kyodo News (共同通信社, Kyōdō Tsūshinsha) is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News' business arm, established in 1972.^[1] The subdivision Kyodo News International, founded in 1982, provides over 200 reports to international news media and is located in Rockefeller Center, New York City.^[1]

Their online news site is in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, and English.

The agency employs over 1,000 journalists and photographers, and maintains news exchange agreements with over 70 international media outlets.^[1]

Satoshi Ishikawa is the news agency's president.^[2]

Kyodo News was formed by Furuno Inosuke, the president of the Domei News Agency, following the dissolution of Domei after World War II.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). News agencies from pigeon to internet. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6.
^ "Kyodo News names General Manager Ishikawa as new president." Kyodo News International. May 26, 2005.
^ Haru Matsukata Reischauer, "Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage", Harvard University Press, 1986, page 310